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Cody Posts: 16 Joined: 24 Feb 09  Offline |
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Hi my name is Cody im 13 years old and play cricket in Australia. I currently play junior club cricket (14's) and junior districts (13's. I am a pace bowler and usually open the bowling. Fitness goals: To build strength and explosive power, bowling stamina and endurance Skill goals: To bowl on a consistent line and length, Have a well disguised slower bowl and to have the speed to bowl a bouncer. Current plan: Monday: light-medium weights (Upperbody) Tuesday: light-medium weights (Lowerbody) Wednesday: Core strength (planks,med ball work with dumbells) Thursday: rest day Friday: light-medium weights (Upperbody) Saturday: light-medium weights (lowerbody) Sunday: recovery day (light jog) Sorry but im new to the fitness world. This is to build a strength base then i will move onto heavy weights then later on in the winter i will bring my intervals and running. please leave a comment on my log thanks. |
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I just do as many reps as i can for about 3-5 sets just to build a bit of strength then power.
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Welcome Cody. Looks good, what is your workout?
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Just some bench presses,bicep curls,squats,lunges e.t.c just to isolate the muscles strength then work more on different exercises like olympic lifts and yeah start to build power after some strength
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OK how many reps are you doing?
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I do about 5-10 reps sometimes more.
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It sounds like you have the right idea. Have you seen my complete guide to cricket fitness? There are a few tweaks in there that can make it even better (like staying under 10 reps and increasing the weight).
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yeah i hav seen ur guide it's very good. ok i will try that thanks.
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Im thinking of buying the bowling thing on the pitch vision academy. This is because i want to become more side on so i can swing the ball away from right handers.
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Hi Cody, It's great you are thinking about buying the course but don't do it to get more side on. First, the course is not about swinging the ball it's about pace and accuracy combined. Second, even if it was about swinging the ball it would not show you how to get more side on. Away swing can be generated in many different ways, changing your action is probably one of the least effective ones. Have you listened to my interview with Ian Pont? It goes into detail about swing bowling without changing your action.
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ok. It's going into te off season so i will be working on fitness and work on technical. Im just getting an idea of technique
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Should i do the bowling specific intevals? because i don't know do they work or not.
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What do you mean Cody?
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During the off season should i do the bowling specific sprint things. I was asking are they effective.
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If they are on this site they are effective. Which ones did you mean, can youpost a link please? Just so I can confirm the timing etc.
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http://www.pitchvision.com/fitness-tips-for-bowlers/. This is the link that you wanted thanks
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Ah yes, those are excellent for cricket specific endurance. Combine them with some strength training and lots of stretching and you have a great plan.
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Also look here for some variations on interval training Still highly specific for bowlers.
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i have grand finals fir both club and districts. I just got in from club training was good. didn't bowl as consistant as i wanted but bowled pretty well considering that i had a very old bowl that was reversing.I would of got wickets with my slower bowl .Batted good played on the front foot and on back. smashed the bad bowl. especially of our quickest and best bowler.
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I would like to know what exercises to do to build power. I believe that i have the strength base to start power phase.
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I'm filming a short video today that might help you. Keep your eyes peeled on the site for it.
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Played my club final yesterday. We fielded i bowled 8 overs. 3 for 23. So it was quite a good game for me. We go bat next week.